Pair of dishes; Company of the Indies, 18th century. Ceramics. They have pockmarks on the edges.

Pair of plates of the Company of the Indies, 18th century.
Ceramic.
The rims are pitted.
Measurements: 2.5 x 23 cm (x2).
Pair of plates with a poly-lobed profile, in porcelain decorated with cobalt enamels on white engobe. A lush landscape dominated by the presence of various animals is inscribed on the seat and plant compositions decorate the eaves.
The East India Company was a generic term for companies that managed trade between a European metropolis and its colonies. Chinese manufacturers soon realised that Europeans were not connoisseurs of porcelain, and produced a vulgar, even flawed, export porcelain, but which in the eyes of Westerners turned out to be true works of art. Once the trade was regularly organised, the India Companies supplied Chinese artists with European models, both for forms and decoration. Throughout the 18th century the blue-and-white series persisted, but of inferior quality, which was then called Nanjing porcelain.